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Boundaryless D4 Source Current Is Closed
Distributional closure of the oriented degree-five current for a smooth boundaryless D4 worldvolume, using compactly supported test forms; a worldvolume boundary adds its boundary current.
Statement
Let be oriented and a smooth proper oriented embedding. Define the degree-five current by for every compactly supported smooth five-form ; in the boundaryless Nil case this is the current of D4 Distributional Source Current. For a degree- current , define its exterior derivative by . If , then . If , assume , the countable-choice principle that every sequence of nonempty sets has a choice function, and orient by the outward-normal-first convention; define by for compactly supported smooth four-forms . Then . The boundary statement is conditional on this displayed countable-choice premise.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The smooth proper oriented embedding, the current pairings and derivative convention in the Statement, and compactly supported test forms.
D4 Distributional Source Current: in the boundaryless Nil case, ; the boundary-current extension used here is defined explicitly in the Statement.
Finite chart localization gives choice-free integration and compact Stokes: on an oriented boundaryless manifold, the integral of a compactly supported exact top form is zero.
The general Stokes theorem: under , for a smooth manifold with boundary and a compactly supported form of degree one below its dimension, with outward-normal-first orientation.
The exterior derivative commutes with pullback: for every smooth map and smooth form , .
Proof
Let be an arbitrary compactly supported smooth test four-form on . Since is proper, is compactly supported on . By the current pairing and derivative convention in the Statement and [F4], .
If , [F2] makes the last integral zero, so every test pairing of vanishes. Thus distributionally in the boundaryless case.
If , [F3] gives . The equality for every test form is exactly , under [F3]'s stated premise.